Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-2023 Annotation: This engraving, taken from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, portrays Victoria Woodhull argues for women’s suffrage before the House Judiciary Committee on 2 January 1871, surrounded by prmominent suffragists of the day. Woodhull, a…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-121959 Annotation: In 1870 Elizabeth Tilton confided to her husband that she had been having an affair with his close friend and immensely popular Protestant minister and reform movement leader Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher himself…

Credit: The American Museum of Photography Media type: cyanotype Museum Number: Annotation: Developed in 1842, the process of cyanotype gives a cyan-blue tint to photographs. This is the same method used to make blueprints used by engineers and architects. Ten African American children…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04557 Annotation: Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend’s father and speaks about…

Credit: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library Media type: illustration Museum Number: Annotation: Published in 1899, Charles Waddell Chestnutt’s fictional short story about the challenges faced by African Americans in Ohio and North Carolina, contributed to Chestnutt becoming one of the most…